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Darfur aid, Rohingya refugees, and mpox vaccine delays: The Cheat Sheet

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Aid trucks given the all-clear to move into famine-hit Darfur. Sudan’s army has removed restrictions imposed in February on aid trucks moving into the famine-stricken Darfur region through the Adré crossing in neighbouring Chad. Adré provides the most direct route into Darfur but was sealed off by the army because it doesn’t want aid going into a region controlled by its rival – the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The UN complied because it sees the army as the de facto authority in Sudan – even though it took power in a 2021 coup – but some NGOs have told The New Humanitarian they ignored the order. The head of the UN’s emergency aid coordination agency in Sudan said 15 trucks have crossed since the ban was lifted but that further movements are awaiting procedural agreements, and rain and RSF obstruction might affect onward travel. Famine was declared in Darfur earlier this month by the Famine Review Committee, which is part of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) – a system for measuring food crises that includes UN agencies, aid groups, and governments. The declaration is the IPC’s first in over seven years and only the third since the system was designed 20 years ago.

Darfur aid, Rohingya refugees, and mpox vaccine delays: The Cheat Sheet

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